RE: Girl Ignores Tinder Guy, He Beats Michael Phelps For Gold And She Attention-Whore
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The best post I have read on this forum.
scorpion said:A great example in a nustshell why social media is such a complete disaster. Women thrive on attention. Being recognized socially as "someone" is literally the female lifeblood: because historically, without it women were completely helpless. A woman without any social connections - without a strong support system around her - was most likely completely destitute and not long for this world (this is why charity for widows was always emphasized). Thus women are designed with an innate proclivity to attention whore. Their very survival depends on being noticed and valued by other people.
Social media is harmful because it hijacks and amplifies this intrinsic need for attention. Rather than trying to gain the attention of the people in her immediate surroundings, women are now free to attention whore to the entire world. The corollary to this: she is also now competing in the attention sweepstakes with every other woman in the world! Thus begins an attention whoring arms race among women, resulting in an increasing thirst and desperation for attention and a constant trend of one-upsmanship.
This is how you end up with women like this - a complete nobody - desperately projecting the flimsiest rationale for attention to the world. "Look at me! I had a text exchange on a sex app with a guy who is currently appearing on TV and enjoying his 15 minutes of fame!" In her mind, this simple text exchange validates her existence as "somebody" in the modern world. She is not interested in being recognized by her family and community as a loving wife and mother, as a good neighbor, as a kind and cheerful friend. She is not interested in the accolades and social approbation earned by a life well-lived. She is not interested in establishing a good reputation in the eyes of those who have known her for years.
Instead, she bases her self-worth on the most fleeting attention possible - the passing glances of millions of anonymous eyeballs on social media platforms. And so when her chance finally arrives, she takes it. She, previously just another anonymous social media eyeball, is now, in this one fleeting moment, the star of the show. She basks in the glow of the attention, the pleasure she receives from knowing that so many people must now validate her existence: near-orgasmic. She is someone. In this case, she is just a girl that an Olympic gold medalist matched on Tinder. But that's enough for her. She'll take it. She'll broadcast it proudly to the world, because in the land of social media, the only currency that matters is attention.
What we're witnessing with social media is similar to the phenomenon of alpha widowing. Just as a woman who has previously given herself emotionally and physically to an alpha male can no longer be truly satisfied with a "lesser" man, so it is with attention. Women who have experienced the intoxicating hit of concentrated social approval and attention they can receive on social media are no longer interested in pursuing the more mundane social accolades they could receive by traditional means. Why bake your boyfriend a cake when you could take a selfie showing off your ass? The former only generates the attention and approval of one man, while the latter could generate it from thousands or millions (or more modestly for most women, a few dozen, which is still to be preferred in the female mind as far superior to one).
Traditionally pro-social female behavior has thus been abandoned in favor of social media attention whoring as the preferred method for women to gain and demonstrate social status.
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The best post I have read on this forum.